I have a question in regards to a screenplay that I am writing?

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I have a question in regards to a screenplay that I am writing. The setting is the mid 1940's in NYC when an 8 yr. old prodigy, originally from North Korea , later on in the story, walks into a music shop and she picks out a violin and plays it to the amazement of the shop owner. 

    Thus to the audience the violin has to be incredibly sounding yet small for her age. How do I make this believable? Would a shop have such a violin in those days? The shop owner also happens to be a teacher at Juilliards which is a few blocks away.  Richard

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In my experience a talented musician of any instrument can make it sound f*king fantastic to someone who doesn't know the difference between a good instrument and a bad one which, to be honest, is everyone who doesn't play that instrument. You could literally give a 20 dollar walmart violin to an expert and they could make you cry.

Back to your story though, a Juilliards teacher would not be working at a shop even if they own it and if they did it would have a wide variety of high quality violins there all of which would be suitable for learners and experts including wood body, plastic, graphite, electric and acoustic and everything in between.

I have a question in regards to a screenplay that I am writing?

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